Oscars: 94 Original Songs, 149 Original Scores Eligible for 96th Academy Awards

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94 original songs and 149 original scores have been deemed eligible in the music categories for the 96th Academy Awards, including three songs from Barbie, two from 14-time nominee Diane Warren with a handful of scores either deemed ineligible or not submitted, including those for Asteroid City, Wonka and The Little Mermaid.

Thomas Newman, 15-time Oscar nominee without a win, will potentially have two more chances with the score for and original song “Steal the Show” from Pixar’s Elemental. While The Little Mermaid‘s score was found ineligible, the live-action remake has three new songs that are on the list, “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt,” and “Uncharted Waters.” Another movie musical, The Color Purple, also has two new songs submitted, “Keep It Movin'” and “Superpower.”

This week, the Golden Globes nominated “Dance the Night,” “I’m Just Ken,” “What Was I Made For” from Barbie, “Road to Freedom” from Rustin, “Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie and “Addicted to Romance” from She Came to Me and for Original Score they nominated The Boy and the Heron, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Zone of Interest. Over at Critics Choice, the nominated scores are Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Society of the Snow and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. All are Oscar-eligible.

Voting for the Oscar shortlists in both song and score – as well eight other categories – began today and will continue through 5pm PT on Monday. The Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21. From those shortlists Academy voters will decide the nominees between January 11-16, 2024 with Oscar nominations revealed on January 23.

The news was first reported exclusively by Variety. Here is the complete list of eligible songs and scores for the 96th Oscars.

Eligible Songs

• American Symphony – “It Never Went Away”
• Asteroid City – “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven”
• Barbie – “Dance the Night,” “I’m Just Ken,” “What Was I Made For”
• The Beanie Bubble – “This”
• Bella – “The Easy Way”
• Bobi Wine: The People’s President – “Everything’s Gonna Be Fine”
• The Boy and the Heron – “Spinning Globe”
• Carmen – “Slip Away”
• Champions – “Tell Somebody That You Love Them Right Now”
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget – “My Sweet Baby”
• The Color Purple – “Superpower,” “Keep It Movin’”
• Creed III – “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
• Dicks: The Musical – “Out Alpha the Alpha”
• Dreamin’ Wild” -“A Dream Is Beautiful”
• Drift – “It Would Be”
• Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – “Wings of Time”
• 80 for Brady – “Gonna Be You”
• Elemental – “Steal the Show”
• The Face of the Faceless – “Barala Tribal Song,” “Ek Sapna Mera Suhana,” “Jalta Hai Suraj”
• Flamin’ Hot – “The Fire Inside”
• Flora and Son – “High Life,” “Meet in the Middle”
• A Good Person – “The Best Part,” “I Hate Myself,” “Stardust”
• Heart of Stone – “Quiet”
• Here. Is. Better – “A Little More Time”
• The Home Fairy – “Amar em Segredo”
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – “Can’t Catch Me Now”
• The Inventor – “From This Tiny Seed”
• The Iron Claw – “Live That Way Forever”
• Jacob the Baker – “Better Times”
• Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister – “It’s Precious We Have It Today”
• John Wick: Chapter 4 – “Eye for an Eye”
• Journey to Bethlehem – “Mother to a Savior and King”
• Killers of the Flower Moon:” -“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)”
• King Coal – “King Coal”
• Knights of Santiago – “Las Navas de Tolosa”
• Leo – “When I Was Ten”
• The Little Mermaid – “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt,” “Wild Uncharted Waters”
• The Magician’s Elephant” -“Found”
• M3gan – “Tell Me Your Dreams”
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 – “We’re All Together”
• My Love Affair With Marriage – “Lion / My Love Affair With Marriage”
• Nimona – “T-Rex”
• Nyad – “Find a Way”
• Origin – “Falling Into Place,” “I Am”
• Orlando, My Political Biography – “Pharma Coliberation”
• Our Son – “Always Be My Man”
• Past Lives – “Quiet Eyes”
• PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie – “Down Like That,” “Learning to Fly”
• The Peasants – “End of Summer”
• Prisoner’s Daughter – “Shotgun Clown”
• Radical” -“Sader”
• The Road Dog – “Remember Me”
• Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken” -“Rise,” “This Moment”
• Rustin – “Road to Freedom”
• Saving Ana – “Missing Children”
• Scream VI – “In My Head,” “Still Alive”
• She Came to Me – “Addicted to Romance”
• Silver Dollar Road – “Wounded Heart”
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – “Am I Dreaming”
• Spinning Gold – “Greatest Time”
• The Starling Girl – “Ace Up My Sleeve”
• State of the Unity – “One Mile,” “Songbird,” “Hides”
• Stephen Curry Underrated – “Lil Fish, Big Pond”
• Strays – “All of You”
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie – “Peaches”
• Suzume – “Kanata Haluka.” “Suzume”
• Sweetwater – “Taking Me Higher”
• Theater Camp – “Camp Isn’t Home”
• They Cloned Tyrone – “Drunk AF”
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – “On My Soul”
• Trolls Band Together – “Better Place (Reunion)”
• Uncharitable – “All of Our Dreams”
• We Dare to Dream” -“Don’t Need to Sleep”
• Wish – “I’m a Star,” “This Is the Thanks I Get?!,” “This Wish”
• Wonka – “A World of Your Own”

Eligible Scores

All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

American Symphony

Anselm

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Baby Ruby

Barbie

The Beanie Bubble

Beau Is Afraid

Big George Foreman

Blue Beetle

Blue Jean

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Bottoms

The Boy and the Heron

The Boys in the Boat

The Burial

Butcher’s Crossing

Carmen

Cassandro

Chevalier

Cocaine Bear

The Color Purple

Common Ground

The Creator

Creed III

Daliland

The Deepest Breath

Dicks: The Musical

Dream Scenario

Dreamin’ Wild

Drift

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

80 for Brady

Eileen

Elemental

The End We Start From

The Equalizer 3

Every Body

The Face of the Faceless

Ferrari

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddie’s

Flamin’ Hot

The Flash

Foe

Fool’s Paradise

Freud’s Last Session

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Golda

Good Grief

A Good Person

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

Hadik

A Haunting in Venice

Heart of Stone

Here. Is. Better.

The Holdovers

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

The Inventor

Invisible Beauty

The Iron Claw

It Ain’t Over

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

John Wick: Chapter 4

Journey to Bethlehem

Jules

The Killer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Knock at the Cabin

Landscape With Invisible Hand

The League

Leave the World Behind

Leo

The Lesson

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Mafia Mamma

The Magician’s Elephant

The Marvels

Master Gardener

Migration

A Million Miles Away

The Miracle Club

Miranda’s Victim

The Monkey King

Monster

The Mother

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Love Affair With Marriage

Napoleon

Nimona

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

The Nun II

Nyad

Once Within a Time

Oppenheimer

Origin

Past Lives

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

The Peasants

The Persian Version

The Pigeon Tunnel

Polite Society

Poor Things

The Promised Land

Radical

Reptile

Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken

Rustin

Saltburn

Scream VI

Sharper

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

She Came to Me

Shortcomings

Silver Dollar Road

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Society of the Snow

A Song Film By Kishi Bashi: “Omoiyari”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stamped from the Beginning

Starbright

The Starling Girl

State of the Unity

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Story Ave

Strays

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Suzume

Sweetwater

The Teachers’ Lounge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

They Cloned Tyrone

A Thousand and One

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2018 (Everyone Is a Hero)

Walid

War Pony

What Happens Later

Wish

Your Fat Friend

The Zone of Interest